Used the wrong power cord for my psu.

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PChelpplease

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I recently received a new desktop pc and was exited to set it up. while unpacking my pc I had accidently mixed up my psu power cord with my moniter power cord, since they look exactly the same. I had just started to launch a game and my computer crashed, Im assuming from overheating. I then removed the cords and found that one was labeled 100c while the other 60c. i was just wondering if I had damaged my new cpu or hardware from the thermal shutdown. from what I have read it is supposed to shutdown before any damage is done, but from different sources I heard otherwise. I read that it might have fried my cpu and I have been afraid to use my new pc causing further damage.
 
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That's just the temperature rating of the Cable. I'm pretty sure unless the outside of your room is 100c you're not going to do anything wrong. The cables are interchangeable, however, I would personally use the 60c one on the PSU just in case it gets too hot. Nothing is likely to happen, but you never know.

TL;DR: No damage has been done.
 
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First off id like to thank you for the response, but now I am abit confused. I thought my pc shutdown because I used the wrong cord, but now I am unsure of the problem. what basicly happened was all I did was launch a game then my computer crashed, attempted to reboot then crashed again. it was 79 degrees in my house and unsure if it crashed from overheating or something else. I received no notification about a thermal shutdown on boot I just assumed it was, I guess the problem now is I have a brand new gaming pc that shut down for no reason.
 
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There may be a log in the event viewer. If you don't know how to open it, hold the windows key and press R. When the run box appears, type "eventvwr" without the quotes and press enter. Then go to Windows Logs, then System, then find the event closest to (and leading up to) the time it crashed. This should hopefully give you some insight into what caused the crash. Unfortunately I have to get up early, so I'll leave you in the capable hands of the other people here, hopefully they can and will help you :)
 
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The cords are interchangeable. Higher power PSUs require thicker cords to prevent the cord from overheating, but that's it.
 
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no problem and thanks, for anyone that can help I think I found the log "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. this error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed or lost power unexpectedly."

 
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The logs slightly before that should help determine the cause of the crash, but there's always a chance it wasn't recorded in the logs. That shutting down one should have happened after the crash.
 
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What is the make and model of your PSU?
 
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"The driver \driver\WUDFRD failed to load for the device ACPI\PNP0a0a\2&daba3ff82" the model of the psu is a 750W EVGA SuperNOVA
 
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